GARISSA(Xinhua) -- Kenyan security agencies on Wednesday arrested
two suspected al-Shabab accomplices in Ijara and Liboi towns in
northeast part of the country.

Northeastern
regional commissioner Mohamed Birik said the two—a Kenyan from
Gatundu in central Kenya and a foreigner of European origin—were
arrested after members of the public became suspicious of their
movements.

Birik said the
European was arrested in Ijara town while he was inquiring on
where to board public vehicles to the border town of Hulugho,
some 100 km away, Birik said.

“The public became
suspicious and called in the police who picked for further
interrogations. We handed them over to a team of multi-agency
investigating team,” he said.

Birik said the
Kenyan suspect claimed he was traveling to Kismayu, southern
Somalia on a business trip.

“We are suspicious
of his movement because his information is not adding up and
uncooperative,” he said.